Tables (board Game) - Historic Variants

Historic Variants

Many of the ancestors of modern tables games are no longer widely played.

  • Irish, 16th and 17th century British game; directly ancestral to Backgammon.
  • Games described in the 13th century Libro de los juegos:
    • Doublets
    • El Mundo
    • Imperator
    • Seven-sided backgammon
    • Six, Deuce, and Ace
  • Tabula, 2nd century Roman game.
  • Ludus duodecim scriptorum, Roman game dating back to the 2nd century B.C.

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